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The true and fair way to “cost” your investments

by Henry Tapper yesterday
Alan and Gina Miller are good people. They have invested their money, experience and time to develop a website that allows you to work out what you are really paying for your investments- whatever the wrapper you put them in.

The true and fair way to “cost” your investments

by Henry Tapper yesterday
Alan and Gina Miller are good people. They have invested their money, experience and time to develop a website that allows you to work out what you are really paying for your investments- whatever the wrapper you put them in.

Point three or not point three?

by Matt Williams yesterday
A handful of newspapers carry a story about a "giant badger" terrorising pupils at the imaginatively-named Folkestone School for Girls, a school for girls in Folkestone. The carnivorous beast has been "spotted several times within the grounds, scaring the living daylights out of the teenage girls". So terrified are they of the monster that "it is causing...

Apple, Google, Starbucks – what we “feel” matters most

by Graham Jones yesterday
Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, says the company pays all the tax it owes and follows the “spirit” of the law. That “spirit” has allowed the company to earn $74bn through an Irish subsidiary and only pay a tax rate of 0.05% on it. Apple is not alone, of course. In spite of earning billions, Starbucks has only paid an average of £533,333 in tax in the UK for the past 15 years.

The purpose of marketing “collateral”

by Steve Billingham 2 Days ago
Having a range of marketing materials (collateral) that you can give to prospects once you have their attention, will help you to increase their interest in what you do, build trust and start to engage with them. Marketing collateral also makes you, your business and your services more tangible.

Lower inflation = lower pound

by Matt Williams 2 Days ago
Researchers have discovered that people working in London spend more time travelling to and from work than anywhere else in Britain. Those with the shortest commute are in Royston Vasey. This astonishing piece of analysis was carried out by Randstad, a recruitment agency. It conveniently omitted to mention that, according to the Office...

Excess German savings, not thrift, caused the European crisis

by Michael Pettis 2 Days ago
One of the reasons that it is been so hard for a lot of analysts, even trained economists, to understand the imbalances that were at the root of the current crisis is that we too easily confuse national savings with household savings. By coincidence there was recently a very interesting debate on the subject involving several economists, and it is pretty clear from the...

Is inflation under control?

by John Redwood 2 Days ago
One of the most remarkable changes so far in 2013 has been the change to expectations of inflation. As we entered the new year last January many investors were becoming more bullish about shares. They thought the large sums being printed by the US, Japanese and other governments would lead to an expansion of credit.
 
 

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